Quotes About Ethics

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.

El hombre debe aprender que el sentido de la vida consiste en dar ejemplo.

This feels like a critical fork in my road-success lies to the left, moral integrity to the right; are they ever on the same road?

She was a woman who cared more about what she was right about than about being right.

Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.

What you're saying is that making an employee work and profiting from that work are two different things.

Surely, Miss Ashburn,' and he looked at me stedfastly, 'you cannot think I would ever use your mother ill.' 'Do you love her, sir?' 'I have told you, Miss Ashburn, I admire her—I think her a fine spirited woman.' 'Do you love her, sir?' rejoined I with more emphasis. 'Love! why yes—no!—I have a great friendship for her, madam.—But as to love 'tis out of fashion—it is exploded.

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so.

It is easier to be generous than to be just.

contemporary states make live, let die, and kill

Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

One of the interesting things about programming people of all sorts to be more ethical is that it also makes them more ethical about the limits of programming people to be ethical.

Forgiveness is cheaper than permission.

Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse.

If you're stupid enough to sleep with your superior, you'd best be smart enough to use whatever you have left.

Sweet death in a vacuum, why can't anybody be uncomplicatedly evil in real life? Or uncomplicatedly good? Why are we all such a twist of good and bad decisions, selfishness and self-justification, altruism and desire?

Wainwright looks like she knows what she's doing is wrong, and it'll never be right inside her head again.

It should be harder to kill someone. The ease of unblades made their purpose somehow more terrible.

Was it different if you went in knowing you had made the decision to kill? Was it different if you did it in self-defense? In defense of another? In defense of a species?

Throughout history, certain doctors have done terrible things. It's never nice to be reminded.

The boy is a whore. For slightly less than the price of a good meal-food which the wolf has no use for-that wolf could hire his mouth, his hands…other things.

My people have a saying that every civilization is founded in a terrible crime.

What kind of a sociopath wore a projectile weapon in a pressure vessel? Well, a pirate who would think nothing of murdering a whole crew of people, even if those people were monsters. Silly question. Moving on now.